Volume 84, Issue 13: January 30, 2004 North Park Press

One Senator
continues to push
the U-PASS option.
North Park Press North Park University’s Student Newspaper Volume 84, Issue 13 Friday, 30 January 2004
If you wake up in the morn-ing
and the first thing you
think of is 2.7 Andrew Jack-son
squared, if you can list the
presidents in chronological or-der
or if you can solve a
Rubik’s Cube [without the help
of the internet], you just might
be a geek,” warned Academixx
and Education (A&E) co-direc-tor
Rachel Bergstrom ’04.
Sponsored by the A&E
team, North Park’s first ever
“Geek Week” was the perfect
way to honor geeks on campus.
Activities of the week included
Erin Lichtfuss
And the votes are in!
Everyone has heard of Homecoming King and
Queen, elections are held every year for Student As-sociation
President and Vice President. But what hap-pens
when you combine the popularity of one and the
ambition of the other? Geek Week Royalty!
The North Park Community would like to take this op-portunity
to congratulate its first ever Geek King and Geek
Queen, Andrew Freeman and Mary Bridget Kustusch.
Freeman came through with the win after launching
what A&E directors called a “massive email campaign”
listing the Top 10 reasons he deserves the title Geek King.
Runners-up were David Fisher and Justin Bonner.
Kustusch won a tight race, beating out her fellow phys-ics
major Anne Hawkinson and Hilary Marshall. She was
surprised to learn of her victory; she had spent the week
campaigning for Hawkinson, in altruistic-geek fashion.
GeekSpeak, where students
shared stories of being geeks,
and Scrabble and Trivial Pur-suit
tournaments. The high-light
of the week was the Geek
Dance, appropriately located in
Wickholm Lounge.
In true spirit of honoring
North Park’s geeks, students
were able to cast their votes for
the 2004 Geek King and
Queen. Annie Hawkinson ’04
was both surprised and honored
to see her name high in the run-ning.
“At first I was a little taken
back at being nominated as a
geek, but now I’m accepting it
and even campaigning for the
distinction,” said Hawkinson,
Geek Week
educates all
“I’ve never been nominated for
anything in my life, and I think
it would be really fun to win.”
As president of the Society
of Physics Students, an em-ployee
of the North Park com-puter
lab and someone who can
proudly list all 42 U.S. presi-dents
alphabetically by first and
last name, Hawkinson feels she
is worthy of the distinction.
“With or without the crown,
Annie always be the Queen of
Geeks in my heart,” said friend
Rachel Johnson.
This week North Park
turned its focus to race,
not just as a black and
white issue, but as topic all
people should care about. Dr.
Samuel Bentances started the
week off by bringing a power-ful
message and challenge to
students at both College Life
and Monday’s chapel service.
“Dr. Betances is a person we
should all look to for inspira-tion.
Rarely does one find a
leader who motivates passion-ately,
yet also whose life com-pletely
reflects that which he is
passionate about,” said Aaron
Zirk ’04, “Generally, I am fairly
critical of the speakers that our
institution brings in, however,
Dr. Betances is a man who I be-lieve
has something to offer ev-eryone
and a challenge in the
name of justice that all need to
hear.”
What do you do when you don’t
have all the answers?
Rachel Johnson
The Student Association
Senate voted unani-mously
on Tuesday to
block legislation allocating
money to further explore bring-ing
the CTA’s U-PASS system
to North Park.
The U-PASS provides par-ticipating
University students
with unlimited bus and train
access while school is in ses-sion.
The program is in use by
several larger universities in the
Chicago area, such as Loyola
and DePaul.
The proposal, submitted by
sophomore senator Hiren Desai
and student Ashlee Lien ’05,
requested $300 for the distribu-tion
and analysis of a Scantron
survey to determine the level of
interest the student body has in
starting such a program at
North Park.
Desai said that a Scantron
survey is necessary because
written surveys are much more
time-consuming for those com-
SA research bill doesn’t move an inch
Dan Carlson
continued on page 5
continued on page 4
Winter
Wonderland?
A seemingly desert campus greeted the stray traveler often
this week. Bitter cold temperatures, heavy winds, and lots of
snow covered the campus with an almost-perpetual gray.
Some students, though, seem to be enjoying the snow: “I say
that having snow on campus brings out the best in winter,”
said freshman Liz Anderson. “If it was just cold then what fun
would that be? But with snow people can play!”
Rebecca Perry, Katie Schofield, and Julie
Larson play cards during GeekSpeak in Java
Haus on Monday night. Java was filled with
geeks and geek-wanna-be’s attempting the
Rubik’s Cube, playing cards, and studying (in
true geek fasion).
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“GLBT” Categories Questioned
Alternative sexual preference
continued on page 3
This letter is in response to
Paul Corner and Mike
Satterberg’s recent ar-ticle
correcting Joshua Ander-son.
Mr. Corner and Mr.
Satterberg were certainly right
to clarify Mr. Anderson’s ap-parent
misrepresentation of
their remarks at the Diversity
Forum. Seeking accuracy is not
a bad thing. However, I found
the underlying presupposition
of the article both inaccurate
and troubling. Mr. Corner and
Mr. Satterberg stated that Mr.
Anderson’s phrase alternative
sexual preference in describing
GLBT behavior was inaccurate
because “despite the best ef-forts
of many, there is no good
evidence to support that one’s
sexual orientation is anything
other than intrinsic to each in-dividual.”
Yet, ironically, nei-ther
is there any solid evidence
for a gay-gene which forms
people “intrinsically” homo,
hetro or bi-sexual. This being
so, lumping Mr. Anderson’s
remarks and motives into a cat-egory
characterized as “hostile,
homophobic and unacceptable”
is unfair and misleading.
However, the more troubling
aspect of Mr. Corner and Mr.
Sattleberg’s article is the pre-sumption
that all sexual behav-ior
is somehow morally neutral.
Debating whether GLBT orien-tation
is intrinsic or preferen-tial
is really neither here nor
there. We should instead, in
good Covenant fashion, ask the
unpopular but important ques-tion
concerning sexual behav-ior:
Where is it written? In do-ing
so, we find God’s design for
sexuality neither neutral nor
“diverse” but rather well-de-fined
as marriage between a
man and a woman (Gen. 1:27-
28; 2:21-25). This teaching is
reinforced as the nation of Is-rael
expands through God giv-ing
sexual laws to protect His
original design from the cor-rupting
influences of the sur-rounding
pagan cultures (Lev.
18:19-30; Deut. 22:5; 23:17).
In the New Testament, Jesus
follows the Genesis pattern
when asked questions about
marriage and divorce (Matt.
19:1-15). It is not until the
Apostles began mission work
outside Jerusalem that ques-tions
concerning sexual behav-ior
arose again, this time among
Gentile converts (Acts 15:22-
29). Yet we find the Apostles
affirming the Genesis pattern as
normative for Christian living
and rejecting anything to the
contrary (1 Cor. 6:9-11; 7:2; 1
Tim. 1:8-11; Heb. 13:4; 2 Pe-ter
2:4-10; Jude 5-7).
Legitimizing sexual prac-tices
outside of God’s pre-scribed
pattern in Scripture
simply breeds confusion and
chaos (Rom. 1:18-32). This is
currently being played out in
the Anglican Communion with
the recent installation of Gene
Robinson, an openly homo-sexual
bishop. But since we are
all born into what the Ancients
called “Original Sin”, no part
of our sexual orientation has
been left untainted by sin’s
legacy. Therefore our natural
appetites are a complex matrix
of desire and order, often in
conflict with one and other.
Knowing this, societal chaos
and confusion concerning
sexuality shouldn’t surprise
anyone. Yet the grace of God,
when encountered in the gos-pel
of Jesus Christ, empowers
us to say no to conflicted appe-tites
and yes to God’s moral
design for our lives (Titus 2:11-
14). Our Covenant tradition
readily affirms “New Life in
Christ”, which means no mat-ter
how messed up sin has made
us, we can be changed. This
gospel is good news for the
pornographer, the adulterer, the
playboy, the prostitute and,
dare I say, the homosexual.
Grant Clay
North Park Seminary
First of all, I publicly
apologize for using the
phrase “alternative
sexual preference” in conjunc-tion
with Michael Satterberg
and Paul Corner’s names when
reporting on the Diversity
Taskforce Forum in this paper.
I realize in hindsight that to do
so facilitated the perception
that that characterization of the
issues was theirs rather than
mine. For this unintended con-sequence
I am sorry.
I would, however, like to
explain why I chose exactly
those words to characterize the
issue and why I still believe to
be an issue of alternative sexual
preference. I, of course, can
only give a brief sketch. These
are the arguments and the evi-dence
that I believe to be most
important, not the only argu-ments
or evidence upon which
my choice is based. I’ll treat
the two words in reverse order.
Preference: To quote Mike
and Paul, “Despite the best ef-forts
of many, there is no good
evidence to support that one’s
sexual orientation is anything
other than intrinsic to that in-dividual.
It’s not a choice or a
‘preference’, but an ‘orienta-tion’.”
I disagree. There is
much evidence that homosexu-ality
is, at the very least, sig-nificantly
affected by environ-mental
factors. Numerous ar-ticles
on the subject are avail-able
under the heading “Is Ho-mosexuality
Genetic?” at the
homepage for the National As-sociation
for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality. I
will cite only the one entitled
“The Importance of Twin Stud-ies”
by N.E. Whitehead Ph.D.
He cites data collected from a
study of a little over 14,000
identical twins in Australia. He
says, “They found that if one
twin was homosexual, 38% of
the time his identical brother
was too. For lesbianism the
concordance was 30%.” This
clearly indicates that environ-mental
factors do matter sub-stantially.
Actually, given that
twins often live in incredibly
similar environments with each
other, I would expect more than
a 30-40% correlation based on
environment alone. It seems to
be more likely true that per-sonal
choice is the primary de-terminer
of sexual identity.
Alternative: To quote Mike
and Paul, “To define one
person’s sexual identity as ‘nor-mal’
and another’s as ‘alterna-tive’
is stigmatizing,
marginalizing, and unaccept-able.”
This would be true if in
fact there is not a God-ordained
best use of the human sexual
drive which should be norma-tive.
I believe that there most
certainly is such a standard, and
that it is this: Sex should be an
activity which physically, emo-tionally,
and spiritually binds a
man to a woman for the pur-pose
of mutual support and en-couragement,
as well as the
bearing and raising of children
who in turn will use sex simi-larly.
Sex, used this way is al-ways
binding people together
on both the personal and social
level. However, very few in
our culture—none of us, actu-ally,
if we count the sins of our
hearts— use sex this way. I
don’t at all mean to say that
what I call alternative sexuali-ties
will suddenly thrust our
society into chaos. Rather, I
admit that casual sex, pornog-raphy,
and masturbation have
already done so, and I submit
the above use of sexuality as
the best way to fix things.
However, even above de-fending
myself, I hope to pro-vide
space within the Christian
community for recognizing and
dealing with sin. We need to
be able to say “alternative”
without “stigmatizing [and]
marginalizing”. We need to be
able to recognize sin without
hating sinners. Why? Because
we are all sinners, and, though
we chose so many attractive
alternatives to God’s plan, He
sent His son Jesus to die and
save us.
Homosexuality is a sin. La-ziness,
violence, pride, and
greed are equally vile sins.
These, I credit to myself. With-out
Jesus neither I nor anyone
Cows,
cornfields, and
miles & miles
of nothing but
air... hello
camp!
editorial.
Well, North Park, my
favorite time of
year has come
again… The Covenant Mid-winter
Conference. No, I
don’t get my thrills from
hanging with pastors from
all over the country. For me,
this weekend and next week
are wrapped up in lots of
reminiscing, seeing old
friends, eating lots of Chi-cago-
style pizza – and it’s
all about camp.
That’s right, my fellow
Vikings, Camp Week will
soon be upon us. And, boy,
am I excited!
I have spent the last sev-eral
summers working at
Covenant Cedars Bible
Camp and Conference Cen-ter
– CCBCC, as we like to
call it – in what really is the
middle of nowhere. That’s
right, folks, Central Ne-braska
can be qualified as
nearly the end of the earth.
All that exists for miles and
miles are cornfields, gravel/
dirt roads, and the random
cow that gets loose and finds
itself standing in the middle
of such a road. Occasion-ally,
you will cross a small
creek when traveling
through the countryside;
don’t get confused when
you think you’ve crossed
Dry Sandy Creek before, it
was really Small Sandy
Creek or Big Dry Creek.
And the Platte River? Yes,
you will cross it at least 4
times whenever you drive for
more than 25 miles (which is,
whenever you go anywhere).
Such loneliness, seeming
isolation – I love it! Cedars
has a hold on me that I find
it hard to break from. Sum-mers
have no longer become
enough; at the end of Febru-ary
I will help lead a team of
North Parkers across the
Iowa and Nebraska country-side
to lead a Sr. High retreat.
I know that I cannot return
this summer, that it is time
to maybe get a real job and
some “real-world” experi-ence.
But there is a not-so-small
pain in my heart with
this realization.
Why, you may ask, would
a city-dweller such as I find
such joy in a place where the
loudest sound at night is the
rustle of corn in the wind?
Peace, my friends. It’s all
about peace. There is some-thing
inherently calm that
inspires much thought and
contemplation about
CCBCC and the surrounding
countryside. It is like no
other place I have ever been.
I would venture to say that
this feeling is not connected
solely to Cedars. Talk to any
of your fellow students that
have worked at a camp for a
summer: many will not even
be able to express in words
why it is they love camp so
much, why they keep going
back for more. It just grabs
you and won’t let you go. It
is a way of life that is some-thing
one can only experi-ence.
Megan Gilmore
Editor-in-Chief
Viewpoints 3 Friday, 23 January 2004
my turn.
Jessie Oliver
My Focus: A response to the article “Where is Your Focus”
which appeared in the Press, Jan. 23, 2004.
Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of North Park, or of the Press.
When I read the paper
last week I was thor-oughly
dismayed by
the article, “Where is Your Fo-cus?”
While I understand the-matically
and theoretically
what Mr. Wall was trying to
convey I was greatly disap-pointed
with the manner in
which it was presented. Mr.
Wall marginalized the women
of North Park and projected a
very Neanderthalic view of the
role women have in our com-munity.
Mr. Wall’s article perpetu-ates
the antiquated notions and
ideals of women in our society.
In his article Mr. Wall states,
“All girls dream of
being sought after
and fought for…”
Firstly, referring to
women as girls is be-littling
and patroniz-ing.
It is also indica-tive
of a woman’s
subservience to a
man. Moreover, in Mr. Wall’s
article he consistently refers to
women as girls and never once
refers to men as boys. Sec-ondly,
this statement suggests
that a woman must seek her
validation through men. While
in the article Mr. Wall makes it
understood that his belief is that
women should first seek vali-dation
through God there is
clearly an underlying message
that only when you’ve found
validation through God will he
provide you with a man who
will be there to validate you as
well. This is simply not true.
The notion that God will
provide you with a mate when
you are spiritually in-tune is a
fallacy. I have known count-less
women of high moral fi-ber
and great character who are
strong members of the Church
and in harmony with God’s
plan for them and still have no
spouse. One needn’t look far
to see this either. Anyone who
has attended a chapel service in
which Rev. Alise speaks can
see clearly that she is a woman
of faith and has clarity in her
position with God yet she re-mains
single. God will provide
you a significant other on
God’s terms and yes it will be
greatly beneficial to be living
your life, as Christ-like as is
humanly possible but just be-cause
you are does not guaran-tee
that God will bring you a
partner.
Mr. Wall’s article goes on to
further say that when a woman
becomes aligned with God that
“God Himself” (I believe God
was genderless last time I
checked) will provide you with
someone and, “you won’t need
to watch Beauty and the Beast
for a love story.” Whether con-sciously
or subconsciously the
referral to a Disney movie as
the way which women view
love stories again equates
women as childlike or “girls”.
This being said let it be known
that there are women at North
Park who do not support the
Disney classics because they
only perpetuate the mindset
that a woman is helpless and
defenseless until she is re-deemed
by a man in a ridicu-lous
costume on a white horse
coming to return her glass slip-per
that she so haphazardly lost
or wake her with a kiss because
she naively ate a poisoned
apple. These ideas of love are
preposterous and are plainly
out of the realm of any reality
that we face as women of the
three-dimensional world.
I also would like to contest
the notion that God will provide
a “perfect” mate. God will
never be able to provide you
perfection because people are
imperfect. Men and women of
North Park, if you spend your
lifetime in search of a perfect
mate you will waste a lifetime
trying to find something that
doesn’t exist. For it is true love
that will grant you the ability
to view someone’s imperfec-tions
and love them regardless
of them, in spite of them, or
even because of them.
Furthermore, when one does
find true love I would hope that
it would not spawn jealousy.
As the apostle Paul tells us,
jealousy is a worldly emotion.
It would be very difficult to
have a true relationship of God
while wanting others to desire
something you have in a
worldly manner. In addition,
as members of the body of
Christ we should be more con-cerned
in rejoicing with the
greatness of love than being
jealous of it.
Also, while it is true that
women can be annoying, I
would say that the same holds
true for men, this is because
people can be annoying. How
one-dimensional is it to tell the
men of North Park to distance
themselves from their female
friends so as they will be wor-thy
to be called, “A Man”? This
limitation would seriously lead
me to pose the question: What
good is it to strive to become a
man when you stop being hu-man?
It is not the men of North
Park’s duty to set the tone of
this campus, it is a human duty
to strive to set a community of
love, tolerance, understanding,
dialogue, and respect. “War-riors”
don’t do this;
humans filled with
kindness and compas-sion
do this.
At the heart of all
this debate we have,
however, lost sight of
something of great im-portance.
When all is
said and done, we are
all people. We shouldn’t seg-regate
ourselves into men and
women. We should live as
people in a community that is
abiding by Christian principles.
When we look at the body of
Christ we should see people.
People who possess individual
souls, hearts, and minds. It is
essential for us as a community
to stop seeing gender, race,
creed, sexual preference,
weight, aesthetics, religious af-filiation,
and so on. Because it
will only be then when we are
finally able to truly live God’s
plan of being an egalitarian so-ciety
based on love. For love
(regardless of if it is romantic
or platonic) has no restrictions
or limitations and knows no
gender.
The notion that God will provide
you with a mate when you are
spiritually in-tune is a fallacy.
in the GLBT community has
anything of value. But, with
Jesus we are loved and valued
though we do not deserve it. If
we want to love each other, we
must recognize our own faults
and be open to correction; so I
began with an apology. We
must also not lie to ourselves
and pretend to be righteous; so
I wrote this article to reveal
truth. We must show our love
for others whom we seek to
help; I personally apologized to
Paul and Mike and we’re go-ing
to talk about the situation
with GLBT issues on campus
as a beginning.
Hate the sin. Love the sin-ner.
It’s what Jesus did for us.
Josh Anderson
Alternative sexual preference, continued from page 2
Check out this week’s “I’ve got
the conch” on page 4!
If you could be any movie character,
who would you be?
Selma, from Dancer in the Dark.
~Christine Kanowik, Laura Smith,
and Kayla Steinke
Jo March, from
Little Women.
~Ellen Moore
Michael
Corleone, from
The Godfather.
~Kjel Larsen
CUPOLA
CONVERSATION
Elle Woods, from Legally Blonde.
~Sheree Moldenhauer
Tony Montana,
from Scarface.
~Brian Thompson
4 Campus Friday, 30 January 2004
Friday, January 30 Saturday, January 31 Sunday, February 1 Monday, February 2
8 p.m. - COLLEGELIFE
8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. -Green Team Project 5:15 p.m. - Superbowl Party in Anderson 10:30 a.m.- University Chapel
Chapel
We’ve all become fa-miliar
with this
year’s campus
theme: What is community?
The ubiquitous phrase has
made its way into chapel ser-vices,
class discussions, and
monthly film forums. But what
is your answer? Now, through
an upcoming contest, there is a
way to win a cash prize for your
participation in discussion of
the campus theme.
The annual North Park Dia-logue
Writing Contest will rec-ognize
the best written works
by North Park students on the
campus theme. What will be
different this year is the nature
of accepted entries. While in
the past it has been strictly an
essay contest, this year it has
been extended to include works
such as poetry, short stories,
and other creative non-fiction.
All North Park students are eli-gible,
including undergrad,
graduate, and GOAL students.
As many as six awards will be
granted in categories that are
yet to be decided, based on the
number and type of entries re-ceived.
Jen Pope, North Park’s
Campus Theme Coordinator,
explained: “the purpose of the
contest is to draw out student
thoughts and research on the
campus theme that has been our
focus all year.”
Entries should be no more
than 1200 words, and are due
by Monday, April 5; by 4pm.
Submissions can be turned in
to Jen Pope (box 52) or emailed
to jpope@northpark.edu, and
no late entries will be accepted.
Winners will receive a $100
cash award, as well as recogni-tion
at the April 26 Honors
Convocation.
Along with the writing con-test
is another opportunity for
students to engage with the
campus theme. This time, it in-volves
next year’s theme, What
is justice? The topic will focus
most specifically on issues of
justice in the US and in Africa.
Pope said that Africa will be-come
a focus next year because
“our considerations of justice
must go beyond ourselves be-cause
God is a God of justice
for all, not just for Christians
or Americans.” Additionally,
such a focus will go along with
a year-long commemoration
the Covenant Church has
planned in memory of Paul
Carlson, a medical missionary
to Africa.
As Pope described, the Cam-pus
Theme Planning Commit-tee
wants to make sure that
“programming being planned
for next year is relevant and of
interest to students.” In order
to carry out this goal, they are
requesting program proposals
for the 2004-2005 academic
year centering around the cam-pus
theme. Students may make
a proposal in cooperation with
a faculty or staff member, and
could be eligible for a grant of
up to $6000 for their proposed
program. Pope suggested that
a grant could be used “to bring
in one or more speakers who
are knowledgeable in the par-ticular
area, to fund a week- or
month-long film series, or to
support a book discussion
group. Possible subjects for
such programs might include
war, racial reconciliation,
women’s rights, legal systems,
education, or agriculture. Of
course these are not exhaustive
lists, and Pope encouraged stu-dents,
stating: “almost anything
is up for discussion.”
More detailed information
on both of these events is avail-able
at www.northpark.edu/
campustheme/. If you have fur-ther
questions, contact Jen Pope
(jpope@northpark.edu or
x5553).
Campus theme contests
Two contests
centered on the
campus theme give
students the chance
to win money,
influence dialogue.
Emily Nelson
Campus News Editor
Are you one of those people who think there
should be more dating at North Park? Wonder-ing
how to have a good time and pick up a HOT
date? LASO has a great opportunity for you!
Our popular dating auction is about to kick off
and we don’t want you to miss out. LASO would
like to invite you and your friends to the date
auction that will take place this Thursday at
Java house. The auction will begin at 7:00 p.m.
and will probably go on until 9:00 p.m. For those
of you who think that the auction is only about
getting people to date, think again! LASO has
decided to direct the money earned towards
the support of upcoming mission trips to Latin
America. You won’t regret you came! Don’t for-get
to bring your wallet or purse for a night that
is guaranteed fun. Don’t be left behind! For
more information concerning missions trips
visit University Ministries in the basement of
Sohlberg.
Dating Auction
Returns!
On the road to keep edu-cating
and informing
our campus on what is
going on in the Holy Land,
North Park’s Middle Eastern
Association is proud to inform
you that it is continuing its mis-sion.
A lot of things happen in Is-rael
and Palestine which are not
very well portrayed in the day-to-
day U.S. media. We are here
to try and give you the other
perspective. It has been said
that MESA has been showing
the Palestinian perspective for
most of the time; we now hope
to prove this thought wrong.
MESA is on the quest to show
the truth of what is really hap-pening
in the west bank and
Gaza. MESA is not just a Pal-estinian
organization - it is a
Middle Eastern Organization
where we portray all perspec-tives
equally, to let the truth be
clear.
This is why on February 2nd
we are co-sponsoring a discus-sion
by Mrs. Wendy Pearlman.
Our partner in this venture is
Not In My Name, a Jewish or-ganization.
Wendy Pearlman is a young
Jewish woman who is pursuing
her doctorate in government at
Harvard University. She trav-eled
to the Gaza Strip and the
i’ve got the conch.
Our quest against ignorance
Anmar M. Al-Dajani
President of the Middle
Eastern Association
West Bank to teach herself
about Palestinian day-to-day
life.
She is coming to North Park
University on Monday to share
her experience with us. This
kind of opportunity does not
happen everyday; to have such
a distinguished guest speaker
teach us about what is going on
is an honor.
I would like to thank every-one
who makes these opportu-nities
possible. Professor
Donald Wagner, first and fore-most,
who makes it his only
mission to teach students. I
think this is the true Christian
Ethic that we all seek. I would
say North Park University is
really blessed to have such a
distinguished professor.
I hear a lot of people say we
know what is going on, but
those are the words of a truly
ignorant person, because we
never really know. I heard a
wise man once say “after I got
my Bachelor degree I thought
I knew everything, when I got
my Masters I thought well
maybe I don’t know a lot, but
when I got my Ph.D. I knew for
certain that I do not know any-thing.”
I think these are truly
the words of a wise man. So
come and enjoy what knowl-edge
has to offer.
Mrs. Pearlman will make
her presentation on Monday,
February 2, in the first floor
conference room of Brandel
Library.
Bentances, commonly re-ferred
to as Dr. B, spoke spe-cifically
about matters of dis-crimination
and the challenge
of this generation to deal with
the unfinished business that
history has left us. “When
people do wrong to people, in
order to justify the evil they do,
they place differences on them
and blame them for negative
conditions,” said Bentances.
He challenged students to real-ize
that while people tend to
hate bad outcomes, they don’t
always hate the behavior that
gets them there. When recon-ciling
racial issues, Bentances
called for students to be con-scious
of the privileges they
benefit from.
Society places meaning on
all its surroundings, including
gender, race, color and class.
The question that remains is
how to make sense of our dif-ferences.
“I really like how Dr.
B compared the way we put
meaning on a handkerchief to
how we place meaning on the
color of people. And more im-portantly,
how we can over-come
that and gain a deeper
understanding of each other,”
said Andrea Olson ’06.
Betances called for the
church to focus on the purpose
that God has given to his king-dom,
and for this generation to
realize that men and women of
all backgrounds must come to-gether
as one body. “You
couldn’t have chosen a more
timely theme than to focus on
the issue of race,” said
Betances, “The church has cor-rupted
this more than any other
issue.” He challenged students
Focus on Race, continuted from page 1
to think about what they need
to start, stop, or continue in or-der
to move towards equality.
“Dr. Betances gives our
generation hope for a coming
together of all people, no mat-ter
their background, and he
challenged all who heard him
to take action in racial issues
right here everyday, even
across the river at Von
Steuben,” said Zirk, “The most
important inspiration that I take
away from Dr. Betances’ life
and teaching is that I should
never settle for less than my
highest aspiration and to fight
to find ways to reach my high-est
potential.”
Check out the latest edition of HandsOn, North
Park’s online social justice magazine. The
newest issue focuses on immigration, and
features a lot of great articles by fellow North
Park students. You can find it at
www.handsonmag.org.
CAMP
Friday, 30 January 2004 5 Campus
Tuesday, February 3 Wednesday, February 4 Thursday, February 5 Friday, February 6
9:30-11 p.m. - Impact Meeting
Spend a couple of hours pouring over
Shakespeare’s sonnets, sampling
chocolates, and/or choosing which color
rose best describes your level of
commitment to your Valentine... or
simply send him/her a personalized note
in the Feb. 13th issue of the North Park
Press. (More info above...)
5:30-7:30 p.m. - Pastor’s Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m. - Seminary Dessert
Open House
5:30-9 p.m. - AAMA Dinner
9-11 p.m. - Impact Prayer Meeting
If you are planning on attending all of
the special meals tomorrow, you may
want to starve yourself today...
piling the results. Desai distributed a
written survey last spring on campus,
and did not get much response.
Under the U-PASS system, the
University would be required to pay
$0.60 per day for every student en-rolled,
multiplied by the number of
days that the school is in session. For
an entire year, North Park would pay
approximately $348,000 for the pro-gram.
An additional $134 would be
added to every student’s tuition (in-cluding
seminary, graduate, and
GOAL students) to cover the new
expenses.
“I don’t see why we should pay for
a survey when we already know that
the program will cost the school and
the students too much money,” said
sophomore senator Julia Olson.
A study last year by North Park
found that if the school charged only
commuter students for the U-PASS,
the fee would be significantly higher
than the average student pays for pub-lic
transportation on their own.
A major obstacle in the implemen-tation
of such a system is that the CTA
requires that the school pay for ev-ery
student, regardless of whether
they use public transportation or not.
Only about 15% of North Park’s un-dergraduate
population uses the CTA
to get to school.
SA, continued from page 1
We have all come across
homeless people,
seen them on the
streets, and smelled them as
they’ve come on the trains. It
seems that just by being there
they pose an inconvenience and
can place a foul taste in our
mouth. We try to walk the other
way and we might feel bad for
them, or maybe even have feel-ings
of guilt. However, these
thoughts are often mixed with
the thought that they must have
done something to be this way,
to deserve such a life. How of-ten
do we turn away and leave
things as they are? Too often.
This is not necessarily because
we don’t want to do something,
but because of a lack of knowl-edge
of how we can truly share.
If you care, and want to be
exposed to this area which
Christ himself was passionate
about, here is your chance to
make a difference.
Homelessness and Hunger has
a variety of ministries which go
out weekly, and even daily, to
help the less fortunate in our
community receive the love
and attention which is so des-perately
needed by those who
are rejected on a daily basis and
never shown an ounce of accep-tance.
Look for upcoming ar-ticles
in the paper explaining a
little about each ministry, and
how you can get involved.
One of the activities is our
bi-weekly Friday night home-less
ministry. We meet in
Anderson lobby at 9pm to pre-pare
some food, and then go
through some brief training
before heading out to share
food, clothes, blankets, love
and truly just a humane touch
with homeless people around
Chicago who are usually under
the highways or in lower
Wacker. It is often this love
expressed through the time and
interaction as well as prayer
that makes the difference and
uplifts people’s spirits. So
come and join us on Friday
nights at 9 if you’re interested
and want to make a difference.
Our next trip out will be Feb-ruary
6th.
Chicago outside of North Park
Will Mejia
Co-sponsored by The Middle Eastern Association at
North Park University
And Not In My Name (www.nimn.org)
Wendy Pearlman
Author of Occupied Voices
Stories of everyday life from the second intifada
Monday February 2nd Noon lunch presentation
Brandel Library, First floor conference room
Wendy Pearlman is a young Jewish women traveled to
the west bank and the Gaza strip in the quest to talk
with ordinary Palestinians. Her Essays and amazing
photography gives us something that is we rarely see,
an intimacy with Palestinians which is both human and
humane. This presentation argues that peace is
possible in a deeply wounded land.
Looking for a unique way to propose or spill the truth about
your intense feelings to that special someone? Or maybe just
to wish your friends a happy Valentine’s Day?
Now’s your chance!
On February 13th, one page of the North Park Press will be
dedicated to personal messages from NPU students, staff,
and faculty. Each will cost $.50. Co-sponsored by the
Commuter Student Association.
Check out the NPU Daily Announcements and next week’s
paper for more details!
How long have you worked at camp?
I suppose I am camp veteran, I have worked the 2 summers at Portage Lake
(maintenance) and this past summer I worked at Covenant Heights as a coun-selor.
What is your favorite thing, as part of the staff?
My favorite thing about being a member of summer staff is the close rela-tionship
that are formed because of the shared goals and struggles. Without
being overly dramatic, the staff becomes a tight-knit family because you eat
together, sleep together, work together, share your struggles and joys with each
other. It is amazing to watch God work in and through you.
What is the hardest thing about spending a summer at camp? What was
the most challenging?
Whether you are staying up late with a sick camper or getting up early to
catch 10 minutes of peace and quiet, sleep is always in short supply. Working
at camps challenges me because it forced me to put my faith into action, both
by actively sharing my faith and story with the cabin, and making sure that I
am leading by example, and living a life that is in accordance with the Bible.
The physical, emotional, and spiritual demands are high, but the eternal im-pact
made is well worth the cost.
Why should students work at a camp for the summer?
Students should consider working at a camp because it is an amazing place
to put your faith into action in a new and different context. I am fortunate to
have the opportunity to work at a camp where I am in the midst of God’s
beautiful creation, surrounded by amazing staff, and working to build the King-dom
of God.
Many a North Parker works at camp during the summer months.
Here Andy Meyer gets real about the difficulties and rewards that
such a job holds for students. Check out the camps that will be on
campus this week for your chance to get in on the summer job action.
6 Pulse Friday, 30 January 2004
Classy
Carissa Esmon
Dear Classy Kassi,
I am so glad that there is now an expert on campus that can
help me with my fashion questions. I am a female with short
hair and I have noticed that lately whenever I get my hair cut
I want to cut it a little shorter every time. So my question is:
How short is too short when it comes to hair and women?
Thank you Kassi.
Sincerely,
Short but sweet
How short is
too short?
Dear Short but Sweet,
Thank you for your question. In my opinion, there is only
one important factor when it comes to a haircut: the amount
of time you are willing to spend on it. There is no real
answer to “how short is too short”; it’s all about the way you
style it. If you are willing to take the time to fix your hair in a
cute, spiky style then by all means, keep cutting. However, if
styling isn’t your area of expertise, then I would suggest
letting it grow to a length that is easier for you to handle.
Hope that helps!
Classy Kassi
Have questions or pictures for Kassi? Email them to
jschupbach@northpark.edu.
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Kassi
Braving the cold, Chicago style
Sliding across campus
today I realized a few
things: I do not get off
campus as often as I should,
it’s ridiculously cold out, and
there is nothing graceful about
me trying to keep my footing
as I meander around campus.
The latter is something I have
little control over, unless of
course I invest in snowshoes.
The other two insights,
however, can be put to good
use. There are plenty of
activities to do in Chicago this
time of year. They just require
a little creativity and
resourcefulness. Lucky for all
of you, it’s my job to find those
things out. And as for the cold,
I can’t change it but I can help
you get through the winter
months. By the way, for those
of you not used to Chicago
weather, winter ends around
the end of March.
A Taste of Heaven
Envision a Sunday
afternoon: it’s snowing,
everyone is rushing around
outside, and there you are
curled up in a café, sipping a
latte, and braving through your
stacks of homework. A Taste
of Heaven is the perfect place
for your studying needs. The
coffee and homemade treats
are great. Their staff is very
friendly and welcomes you to
sit around for hours. Located
at 1701 W. Foster Ave., phone
# 773-989-0151. Open 7 a.m.-
10 p.m. Sunday through
Thursday; 7 a.m.-11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday.
Millennium Park Ice
Skating
So there are at least a few
of you who are willing to
spend your winter outdoors.
Mostly it’s you crazy
Minnesotans. Regardless of
your toughness or lack of
balance, ice skating is a winter
tradition we should all
embrace. The McCormick
Tribune Ice Rink at
Millennium Park is a great
place to act like a little kid.
Located at 55 N. Michigan
Ave. It’s open 10a.m.-10p.m.
Sunday through Wednesday;
10a.m.-8:30p.m. Thursday
through Saturdays. Skate
rentals are $5. For more
information call 312-742-
5 2 2 2 .
Chicago Blackhawks
So maybe ice skating isn’t
your thing. However, that is
no excuse not to watch other
people do it. Especially the
professionals. This one is
definitely a good time. Plus,
students get in for $8 when
they bring their student ID
with them within three hours
of a game. The next home
game is Febuary 11th at 7:30
against Nashville.
For more
information call
312-943-7000.
Concerts
If you live in
Chicago and do
not go see a
concert I’m going
to become very
concerned. This
town has some
awesome venues
and attracts
phenomenol acts.
And, during the
winter there’s no
better way to stay
L
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T
‘S
BE
H
O
N
E
S
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warm then to pack yourself
into crowded theatre. There
are a lot of great acts coming
our way in the next couple of
months. Try out a band you’ve
never heard of. Who knows,
you may become their biggest
fan. Check the ConcertLine
for show information. Some
venues worth checking out are
the Metro at 3730 N. Clark St.;
the House of Blues at 329 N.
Dearborn St.; or the Vic
Theatre at 3145 N. Sheffield
A v e
So let us review. Chicago
winters are wicked cold, but
let’s accept it and move on. So
instead of sitting around on
our futons and cheap Ikea
stools for the next couple of
months we need to get out
there and see what this city has
to offer. And for those of you
who seem to be so desperately
seeking a mate, just try falling
in front of that special
someone while ice skating. It’s
a perfect opportunity for them
to give you a skating
lesson...or laugh hysterically
at your snow covered butt.
Pulse 7 Friday, 30 January 2004
Let’s all go to the movies…
2/2 Monday
1/30 Friday
Pulse Calendar
2/1 Sunday
Make sure to check all dates and times before you attend the show because they are subject to change.
1/31 Saturday
2/5 Thursday
ConcertLine
· 2 1/3 c. flour · 1 c. water
· 1.2 c. vegan margarine · 2/3 c. cocoa powder
· 2 c. sugar · 1/2 tsp. salt
· 1 tsp. vanilla · 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1. Mix 1/3 c. flour in saucepan with the water. Stir constantly, on medium heat until the mixture is
significantly thicker and boiling (or on the verge of boiling). Cool completely.
2. Melt margarine in microwave & then stir in cocoa powder.
3. Beat sugar, salt, & vanilla into the flour-water mixture. Add cocoa mixture & stir well.
4. Stir together 2 c. flour & baking powder, and then add the previous mixture.
5. Bake in 9"x13" pan @ 350 for 20-25 min.
6. Eat, because they are amazing!
CCuorlinnearry My good friend Susan Golland and I were
hanging around the other night and, since
Rebecca Perry decided to take a bath over
watching a movie with us, we decided to bake vegan
brownies. We entered the baking experience nervous
and cautious, but once I put on some baking music
and Susan starting making the glue-like water and
flour mixture, everything seemed all right. In the
end, these brownies were amazing. They were the
best vegan brownies we had ever had, and pretty
extraordinary for regular brownies as well. Here’s
the recipe which we obtained at http://www.ivu.org/
recipes/northam/the-best.html: :
BROWNIES: vegan style
with joe Strictly Sail Chicago
Navy Pier will be hosting over 250 exhibitors displaying the
newest sailboats and sail-related products, plus seminars,
sailing simulators, authors and more. This event will be
going on all weekend. Open 11a.m.-8p.m. Thursday and
Friday; 10a.m.-8p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission $5-
$12. For more information call 312-595-5700.
BREW AND VIEW
“School of Rock” 8pm (Fri, Sat, Mon - Thurs); 108min
“Scary Movie 3” 10pm (Fri, Sat, Mon - Thurs); 84 min
“School of Rock” Midnight (Fri, Sat & Thurs); 108min
Big Game Bash & The Latest Survivor
21+ Event
Doors open at 3PM -kick off is at 5:25
Free Subway sandwiches (while supplies last)!
Admission is free - and stay for the showing of the “All-Star
Survivor”
Sponsors: 93 XRT FM, MillerLite, Dean’s and Subway.
2/3 Tuesday
2/4 Wednesday
SEMINARY DESSERT OPEN HOUSE
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Seminary Open House in Nyvall Lounge and N25.
RED HYMNAL SOCIETY
The Red Hymnal Society hymn sing this week has been
moved to Isaacson chapel in the seminary building (which is
between Caroline and the library, by the bridge) Enter
through the main doors, take a left, then walk straight until
you enter the chapel). 9-10 pm. You are encouraged to bring
a mug and a thermos of decaf coffee or baked goods for
coffee hour following the worship (if you have the time and
resources).
IMPACT MEETING
9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Impact Prayer team will meet in Magnuson 5. For more
information, contact Tyler Erickson at (773) 244-5568.
Theater That Works: A Chicago Story
The Harold Washington Library Center will be showcasing for
the weekend a collection of photographs, posters, stage props,
playbills and drawings that chronicle the history of Chicago
theater. Located at 400 S. State St. Open 9a.m.-5p.m.
Admission is free. Call 312-747-4875 for more information.
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920s-
1950s
Super Bowl not your idea of fun? Then check out this new
exhibit at Northwestern’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of
Art. Includes more than 80 paintings by Ivan Albright, Elaine
de Kooning, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and more.
Located at 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Open Sunday
12p.m.-5p.m. It’s free! Call 847-491-4000 for more
information.
Chicago Rebels West Coast Swing Club
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Try your hand
at swing dancing at Club 720. This monthly party features a
45-minute West Coast swing dance lesson with Nancy and
Alex followed by an open dance. 7:15 p.m. - 11 p.m.; $5
cover; $5 dance lesson. Located at 720 N. Wells St. For more
information call 312-397-0600.
Dates Band Venue Price Time
1/30 Alan Jackson and Allstate Arena $40-60 7:30pm
Martina Mcbride
2/12 Josh Groban Rosemont $40-85 8pm
2/13 Alicia Keys and Musiq United Center $35-75 7:30pm
2/15 Dweezil Zappa and House of Blues $15 8pm
Lisa Loeb
2/20 From Autumn to Ashes Metro $10-12 6pm
2/20 Rufus Wainwright Riviera $22.50 7:30pm
2/26 Jars of Clay The Vic $20 7:30pm
2/26 O.A.R. w/ Robert Aragon $25 6pm
Randolph...
2/27 Pennywise House of Blues $14 6:15pm
2/28 Further Seems Forever Metro $10-13 6pm
3/4 Neil Young and Crazy Rosemont $43-85 8pm
Horse
3/5 Neil Young and Crazy Rosemont $43-85 8pm
Horse
3/5 Edwin McCain Band House of Blues $20 9pm
3/7 Get Up Kids Metro $16 6:30pm
3/11 Keb’ Mo’ House of Blues $25 9pm
3/14 Liz Phair House of Blues $25 6:30pm
Last week’s top 5
1) The Butterfly Effect
2) Along Came Polly
3) Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
4) Big Fish
5) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King Opening this week
The Big Bounce
The Perfect Score
You Got Served
Osama
8 Athletics Friday, 23 January 2004
Editor’s Ramblings of
the Week
Why? Because he
can.
Scott Hanson
Sports Editor
Marci LaRouech
This Week in NPU Sports
Will Mejia ’04, Lucy Abel
‘05, and Grace Conrad ’05, led
the Vikings indoor track team
at the Chicago Invitational Sat-urday.
Mejia scored over half of the
Vikings’ points with a strong
performance in both the weight
throw and shot put. Mejia
placed first with a strong
weight throw of 15.37m and
placed sixth in the shot put,
throwing 13.68m. “All the
great results this Saturday and
the ones to come have been
caused by our dedication
throughout the year during the
off season,” said Mejia of
Saturday’s performance.
Abel placed first in both the
long jump and triple jump,
bounding 5.38m and 11.24m
respectively. Her triple jump
provisionally qualified Able
for the National Indoor Track
Meet, to be held in March.
Conrad continued to excel
in the distance category with a
second place 5000m finish.
Her PR time of 18:19.90 gave
her the school record.
“This was a great start for a
few of us to look not only at the
conference, but also the national
level,” said Mejia. “This meet
gave Lucy, Grace and me the
goal to get to nationals.”
Other strong finishes for the
Vikings came from the
women’s distance medley,
which placed fourth, Essence
Ashford ’07, taking third in the
high jump, and Ahkeem
Waterford ’06, who high
jumped to 6.10m (fifth place).
This weekend, the Vikings
will travel to the Carthage Col-lege
Invitational with the goal
of bringing back additional na-tional
qualifying performances.
-It is Super Bowl week-end,
the most celebrated day
of the year in the U.S. It
seems like the NFL usually
makes sure that the Super
Bowl is hosted by a city where players, their families, and
football fans would want to flock to in the middle of win-ter.
Places like Miami, New Orleans, San Diego and Tampa
Bay come to mind. But Houston? The only things in Hous-ton
I can think of are Yao Ming, the monstrosity that is
Minute Maid Ballpark, and the ongoing trials of former
Enron Executives.
-Speaking of the Super Bowl, one of the real questions
is who is going to win the Kurt Warner’s wife award, given
to those whose airtime is way out of proportion to their
actual contribution to the game. Vegas odds should be about
3-1 that it’s going to be Jake Delhomme’s family.
-Is it any coincidence that the same time the treadmills
are broken the Edy’s Machine is turned off in ARA?
- Utah Head Basketball Coach Rick Majerus announced
this week that he is resigning at the end of the season due to
health reasons. Look at the guy! The only surprise is that it
didn’t happen much sooner.
A consistent defense by the Wheaton
women’s basketball team held the Vikings to a
45-62 loss on Wednesday night. The shots sim-ply
would not go in for the Vikings (10-8, 2-5),
who were held to only 30 percent from the floor.
North Park’s Megan Slattery (’06) and
Shandrel Young (’06), were the focus of the
Thunder, and were held to only eight points each.
“When teams overplay any player, then some-one
else is going to be open,” said Coach Jack
Surridge. “We simply have to take advantage of
Marci LaRouech
Vikings Eye Nationals
After Chicago Invitational
After strong show-ings
at the Saturday
meet, three Vikings
are looking towards
Nationals
Women’s Basketball
falls to Wheaton
The Lady Vikes lose to
Wheaton in the last five min-utes
of a close game.
those openings.”
The game was kept close with the help of a
string of three-point shots by Tiffany Campbell
(’06) and Laura Mount (’06). Not until the last
five minutes did Wheaton start to extend the lead.
Campbell was the Vikings’ high scorer. She
finished the night with 12 points. “They shut
down our inside game and we struggled finding
open shots” said Campbell of the loss.
Redina Hall (’05) and Angie Watt (’07) helped
the Vikings with four and six points respectively.
Wheaton was lead by post Erin Wingerter
(’05) with 26 points.
“Our team’s patience in the half court is in-consistent
because of our youth, and we have to
improve on that,” added Surridge.
The women’s basketball team will travel to
Wheaton (14-4, 6-1) on Tuesday to take on the
Thunder in another CCIW matchup.
1/31/2004 Men’s Basketball vs. Illinois
Wesleyan at Bloomington, IL 7:30PM
1/31/2004 Indoor Track and Field at
Carthage College Invite Kenosha, WI 11:00
AM
2/3/2004 Women’s Basketball at Wheaton
Wheaton, IL 7:30 PM
2/4/2004 Men’s Basketball vs. Carthage at
North Park 7:30 PM
A full house was on hand
Wednesday night as the Men’s
basketball team fell to CCIW
rival Wheaton 77-69. The
Thunder were lead by pre-sea-son
All-American Joel
Kolmodin. The conference
leader in rebounding grabbed
six boards and scored 23 points
as North Park could not find an
answer to Wheaton’s frontline.
The Thunder relentlessly
pounded the ball inside the
paint, getting good shots on
seemingly every possession.
Three of Wheaton’s big men,
Will Landry, Martin Trimiew,
and Kolmodin finished with 56
of the teams 77 total points.
In the first half the Vikings
fought hard to keep up with the
Wheaton attack. Sophomore
forward Brett Mathisen once
again was the spark for the
Vikes, with 8 points and 4
boards in the first half. Lamar
Townsend scored 6 of his 12
points in the first half and added
3 more rebounds. The Vikings’
efforts paid off and they went
into the half down by only three
points.
The second half of the con-test
looked like it might turn in
to a Wheaton blowout. For 15
minutes Wheaton kept a com-
Vikings Stumble Against Rival Wheaton
Late game come-back
by North Park cannot
topple Nations #12
Team
fortable lead. But the tenacity
of senior guard Cal Ecker and
some key minutes by some
freshmen put Park back in to
the game. Ecker scored 12 of
his 18 points in the last 10 min-utes
of the game. Freshman
Mike Haehn scored 9 points in
his 14 minutes of playing time,
and Cory Wilks continued his
superb outside shooting with 8
points including a late three
pointer that pulled the Vikings
to within 5 points of Wheaton
with under a minute left. The
Thunder were able to weather
North Park’s late run, and the
game ended with a Viking de-feat.
The Men’s Basketball
Teams record now stands at 6-
11(1-5). The Vikes travel down
to Bloomington-Normal this
Saturday to face the Titans of
IWU at 7:30.
(left) Senior Javier Sanchez looks for an open teammate during
the Vikings’ 77 - 69 loss to Wheaton Wednesday night.

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One Senator
continues to push
the U-PASS option.
North Park Press North Park University’s Student Newspaper Volume 84, Issue 13 Friday, 30 January 2004
If you wake up in the morn-ing
and the first thing you
think of is 2.7 Andrew Jack-son
squared, if you can list the
presidents in chronological or-der
or if you can solve a
Rubik’s Cube [without the help
of the internet], you just might
be a geek,” warned Academixx
and Education (A&E) co-direc-tor
Rachel Bergstrom ’04.
Sponsored by the A&E
team, North Park’s first ever
“Geek Week” was the perfect
way to honor geeks on campus.
Activities of the week included
Erin Lichtfuss
And the votes are in!
Everyone has heard of Homecoming King and
Queen, elections are held every year for Student As-sociation
President and Vice President. But what hap-pens
when you combine the popularity of one and the
ambition of the other? Geek Week Royalty!
The North Park Community would like to take this op-portunity
to congratulate its first ever Geek King and Geek
Queen, Andrew Freeman and Mary Bridget Kustusch.
Freeman came through with the win after launching
what A&E directors called a “massive email campaign”
listing the Top 10 reasons he deserves the title Geek King.
Runners-up were David Fisher and Justin Bonner.
Kustusch won a tight race, beating out her fellow phys-ics
major Anne Hawkinson and Hilary Marshall. She was
surprised to learn of her victory; she had spent the week
campaigning for Hawkinson, in altruistic-geek fashion.
GeekSpeak, where students
shared stories of being geeks,
and Scrabble and Trivial Pur-suit
tournaments. The high-light
of the week was the Geek
Dance, appropriately located in
Wickholm Lounge.
In true spirit of honoring
North Park’s geeks, students
were able to cast their votes for
the 2004 Geek King and
Queen. Annie Hawkinson ’04
was both surprised and honored
to see her name high in the run-ning.
“At first I was a little taken
back at being nominated as a
geek, but now I’m accepting it
and even campaigning for the
distinction,” said Hawkinson,
Geek Week
educates all
“I’ve never been nominated for
anything in my life, and I think
it would be really fun to win.”
As president of the Society
of Physics Students, an em-ployee
of the North Park com-puter
lab and someone who can
proudly list all 42 U.S. presi-dents
alphabetically by first and
last name, Hawkinson feels she
is worthy of the distinction.
“With or without the crown,
Annie always be the Queen of
Geeks in my heart,” said friend
Rachel Johnson.
This week North Park
turned its focus to race,
not just as a black and
white issue, but as topic all
people should care about. Dr.
Samuel Bentances started the
week off by bringing a power-ful
message and challenge to
students at both College Life
and Monday’s chapel service.
“Dr. Betances is a person we
should all look to for inspira-tion.
Rarely does one find a
leader who motivates passion-ately,
yet also whose life com-pletely
reflects that which he is
passionate about,” said Aaron
Zirk ’04, “Generally, I am fairly
critical of the speakers that our
institution brings in, however,
Dr. Betances is a man who I be-lieve
has something to offer ev-eryone
and a challenge in the
name of justice that all need to
hear.”
What do you do when you don’t
have all the answers?
Rachel Johnson
The Student Association
Senate voted unani-mously
on Tuesday to
block legislation allocating
money to further explore bring-ing
the CTA’s U-PASS system
to North Park.
The U-PASS provides par-ticipating
University students
with unlimited bus and train
access while school is in ses-sion.
The program is in use by
several larger universities in the
Chicago area, such as Loyola
and DePaul.
The proposal, submitted by
sophomore senator Hiren Desai
and student Ashlee Lien ’05,
requested $300 for the distribu-tion
and analysis of a Scantron
survey to determine the level of
interest the student body has in
starting such a program at
North Park.
Desai said that a Scantron
survey is necessary because
written surveys are much more
time-consuming for those com-
SA research bill doesn’t move an inch
Dan Carlson
continued on page 5
continued on page 4
Winter
Wonderland?
A seemingly desert campus greeted the stray traveler often
this week. Bitter cold temperatures, heavy winds, and lots of
snow covered the campus with an almost-perpetual gray.
Some students, though, seem to be enjoying the snow: “I say
that having snow on campus brings out the best in winter,”
said freshman Liz Anderson. “If it was just cold then what fun
would that be? But with snow people can play!”
Rebecca Perry, Katie Schofield, and Julie
Larson play cards during GeekSpeak in Java
Haus on Monday night. Java was filled with
geeks and geek-wanna-be’s attempting the
Rubik’s Cube, playing cards, and studying (in
true geek fasion).
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“GLBT” Categories Questioned
Alternative sexual preference
continued on page 3
This letter is in response to
Paul Corner and Mike
Satterberg’s recent ar-ticle
correcting Joshua Ander-son.
Mr. Corner and Mr.
Satterberg were certainly right
to clarify Mr. Anderson’s ap-parent
misrepresentation of
their remarks at the Diversity
Forum. Seeking accuracy is not
a bad thing. However, I found
the underlying presupposition
of the article both inaccurate
and troubling. Mr. Corner and
Mr. Satterberg stated that Mr.
Anderson’s phrase alternative
sexual preference in describing
GLBT behavior was inaccurate
because “despite the best ef-forts
of many, there is no good
evidence to support that one’s
sexual orientation is anything
other than intrinsic to each in-dividual.”
Yet, ironically, nei-ther
is there any solid evidence
for a gay-gene which forms
people “intrinsically” homo,
hetro or bi-sexual. This being
so, lumping Mr. Anderson’s
remarks and motives into a cat-egory
characterized as “hostile,
homophobic and unacceptable”
is unfair and misleading.
However, the more troubling
aspect of Mr. Corner and Mr.
Sattleberg’s article is the pre-sumption
that all sexual behav-ior
is somehow morally neutral.
Debating whether GLBT orien-tation
is intrinsic or preferen-tial
is really neither here nor
there. We should instead, in
good Covenant fashion, ask the
unpopular but important ques-tion
concerning sexual behav-ior:
Where is it written? In do-ing
so, we find God’s design for
sexuality neither neutral nor
“diverse” but rather well-de-fined
as marriage between a
man and a woman (Gen. 1:27-
28; 2:21-25). This teaching is
reinforced as the nation of Is-rael
expands through God giv-ing
sexual laws to protect His
original design from the cor-rupting
influences of the sur-rounding
pagan cultures (Lev.
18:19-30; Deut. 22:5; 23:17).
In the New Testament, Jesus
follows the Genesis pattern
when asked questions about
marriage and divorce (Matt.
19:1-15). It is not until the
Apostles began mission work
outside Jerusalem that ques-tions
concerning sexual behav-ior
arose again, this time among
Gentile converts (Acts 15:22-
29). Yet we find the Apostles
affirming the Genesis pattern as
normative for Christian living
and rejecting anything to the
contrary (1 Cor. 6:9-11; 7:2; 1
Tim. 1:8-11; Heb. 13:4; 2 Pe-ter
2:4-10; Jude 5-7).
Legitimizing sexual prac-tices
outside of God’s pre-scribed
pattern in Scripture
simply breeds confusion and
chaos (Rom. 1:18-32). This is
currently being played out in
the Anglican Communion with
the recent installation of Gene
Robinson, an openly homo-sexual
bishop. But since we are
all born into what the Ancients
called “Original Sin”, no part
of our sexual orientation has
been left untainted by sin’s
legacy. Therefore our natural
appetites are a complex matrix
of desire and order, often in
conflict with one and other.
Knowing this, societal chaos
and confusion concerning
sexuality shouldn’t surprise
anyone. Yet the grace of God,
when encountered in the gos-pel
of Jesus Christ, empowers
us to say no to conflicted appe-tites
and yes to God’s moral
design for our lives (Titus 2:11-
14). Our Covenant tradition
readily affirms “New Life in
Christ”, which means no mat-ter
how messed up sin has made
us, we can be changed. This
gospel is good news for the
pornographer, the adulterer, the
playboy, the prostitute and,
dare I say, the homosexual.
Grant Clay
North Park Seminary
First of all, I publicly
apologize for using the
phrase “alternative
sexual preference” in conjunc-tion
with Michael Satterberg
and Paul Corner’s names when
reporting on the Diversity
Taskforce Forum in this paper.
I realize in hindsight that to do
so facilitated the perception
that that characterization of the
issues was theirs rather than
mine. For this unintended con-sequence
I am sorry.
I would, however, like to
explain why I chose exactly
those words to characterize the
issue and why I still believe to
be an issue of alternative sexual
preference. I, of course, can
only give a brief sketch. These
are the arguments and the evi-dence
that I believe to be most
important, not the only argu-ments
or evidence upon which
my choice is based. I’ll treat
the two words in reverse order.
Preference: To quote Mike
and Paul, “Despite the best ef-forts
of many, there is no good
evidence to support that one’s
sexual orientation is anything
other than intrinsic to that in-dividual.
It’s not a choice or a
‘preference’, but an ‘orienta-tion’.”
I disagree. There is
much evidence that homosexu-ality
is, at the very least, sig-nificantly
affected by environ-mental
factors. Numerous ar-ticles
on the subject are avail-able
under the heading “Is Ho-mosexuality
Genetic?” at the
homepage for the National As-sociation
for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality. I
will cite only the one entitled
“The Importance of Twin Stud-ies”
by N.E. Whitehead Ph.D.
He cites data collected from a
study of a little over 14,000
identical twins in Australia. He
says, “They found that if one
twin was homosexual, 38% of
the time his identical brother
was too. For lesbianism the
concordance was 30%.” This
clearly indicates that environ-mental
factors do matter sub-stantially.
Actually, given that
twins often live in incredibly
similar environments with each
other, I would expect more than
a 30-40% correlation based on
environment alone. It seems to
be more likely true that per-sonal
choice is the primary de-terminer
of sexual identity.
Alternative: To quote Mike
and Paul, “To define one
person’s sexual identity as ‘nor-mal’
and another’s as ‘alterna-tive’
is stigmatizing,
marginalizing, and unaccept-able.”
This would be true if in
fact there is not a God-ordained
best use of the human sexual
drive which should be norma-tive.
I believe that there most
certainly is such a standard, and
that it is this: Sex should be an
activity which physically, emo-tionally,
and spiritually binds a
man to a woman for the pur-pose
of mutual support and en-couragement,
as well as the
bearing and raising of children
who in turn will use sex simi-larly.
Sex, used this way is al-ways
binding people together
on both the personal and social
level. However, very few in
our culture—none of us, actu-ally,
if we count the sins of our
hearts— use sex this way. I
don’t at all mean to say that
what I call alternative sexuali-ties
will suddenly thrust our
society into chaos. Rather, I
admit that casual sex, pornog-raphy,
and masturbation have
already done so, and I submit
the above use of sexuality as
the best way to fix things.
However, even above de-fending
myself, I hope to pro-vide
space within the Christian
community for recognizing and
dealing with sin. We need to
be able to say “alternative”
without “stigmatizing [and]
marginalizing”. We need to be
able to recognize sin without
hating sinners. Why? Because
we are all sinners, and, though
we chose so many attractive
alternatives to God’s plan, He
sent His son Jesus to die and
save us.
Homosexuality is a sin. La-ziness,
violence, pride, and
greed are equally vile sins.
These, I credit to myself. With-out
Jesus neither I nor anyone
Cows,
cornfields, and
miles & miles
of nothing but
air... hello
camp!
editorial.
Well, North Park, my
favorite time of
year has come
again… The Covenant Mid-winter
Conference. No, I
don’t get my thrills from
hanging with pastors from
all over the country. For me,
this weekend and next week
are wrapped up in lots of
reminiscing, seeing old
friends, eating lots of Chi-cago-
style pizza – and it’s
all about camp.
That’s right, my fellow
Vikings, Camp Week will
soon be upon us. And, boy,
am I excited!
I have spent the last sev-eral
summers working at
Covenant Cedars Bible
Camp and Conference Cen-ter
– CCBCC, as we like to
call it – in what really is the
middle of nowhere. That’s
right, folks, Central Ne-braska
can be qualified as
nearly the end of the earth.
All that exists for miles and
miles are cornfields, gravel/
dirt roads, and the random
cow that gets loose and finds
itself standing in the middle
of such a road. Occasion-ally,
you will cross a small
creek when traveling
through the countryside;
don’t get confused when
you think you’ve crossed
Dry Sandy Creek before, it
was really Small Sandy
Creek or Big Dry Creek.
And the Platte River? Yes,
you will cross it at least 4
times whenever you drive for
more than 25 miles (which is,
whenever you go anywhere).
Such loneliness, seeming
isolation – I love it! Cedars
has a hold on me that I find
it hard to break from. Sum-mers
have no longer become
enough; at the end of Febru-ary
I will help lead a team of
North Parkers across the
Iowa and Nebraska country-side
to lead a Sr. High retreat.
I know that I cannot return
this summer, that it is time
to maybe get a real job and
some “real-world” experi-ence.
But there is a not-so-small
pain in my heart with
this realization.
Why, you may ask, would
a city-dweller such as I find
such joy in a place where the
loudest sound at night is the
rustle of corn in the wind?
Peace, my friends. It’s all
about peace. There is some-thing
inherently calm that
inspires much thought and
contemplation about
CCBCC and the surrounding
countryside. It is like no
other place I have ever been.
I would venture to say that
this feeling is not connected
solely to Cedars. Talk to any
of your fellow students that
have worked at a camp for a
summer: many will not even
be able to express in words
why it is they love camp so
much, why they keep going
back for more. It just grabs
you and won’t let you go. It
is a way of life that is some-thing
one can only experi-ence.
Megan Gilmore
Editor-in-Chief
Viewpoints 3 Friday, 23 January 2004
my turn.
Jessie Oliver
My Focus: A response to the article “Where is Your Focus”
which appeared in the Press, Jan. 23, 2004.
Opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of North Park, or of the Press.
When I read the paper
last week I was thor-oughly
dismayed by
the article, “Where is Your Fo-cus?”
While I understand the-matically
and theoretically
what Mr. Wall was trying to
convey I was greatly disap-pointed
with the manner in
which it was presented. Mr.
Wall marginalized the women
of North Park and projected a
very Neanderthalic view of the
role women have in our com-munity.
Mr. Wall’s article perpetu-ates
the antiquated notions and
ideals of women in our society.
In his article Mr. Wall states,
“All girls dream of
being sought after
and fought for…”
Firstly, referring to
women as girls is be-littling
and patroniz-ing.
It is also indica-tive
of a woman’s
subservience to a
man. Moreover, in Mr. Wall’s
article he consistently refers to
women as girls and never once
refers to men as boys. Sec-ondly,
this statement suggests
that a woman must seek her
validation through men. While
in the article Mr. Wall makes it
understood that his belief is that
women should first seek vali-dation
through God there is
clearly an underlying message
that only when you’ve found
validation through God will he
provide you with a man who
will be there to validate you as
well. This is simply not true.
The notion that God will
provide you with a mate when
you are spiritually in-tune is a
fallacy. I have known count-less
women of high moral fi-ber
and great character who are
strong members of the Church
and in harmony with God’s
plan for them and still have no
spouse. One needn’t look far
to see this either. Anyone who
has attended a chapel service in
which Rev. Alise speaks can
see clearly that she is a woman
of faith and has clarity in her
position with God yet she re-mains
single. God will provide
you a significant other on
God’s terms and yes it will be
greatly beneficial to be living
your life, as Christ-like as is
humanly possible but just be-cause
you are does not guaran-tee
that God will bring you a
partner.
Mr. Wall’s article goes on to
further say that when a woman
becomes aligned with God that
“God Himself” (I believe God
was genderless last time I
checked) will provide you with
someone and, “you won’t need
to watch Beauty and the Beast
for a love story.” Whether con-sciously
or subconsciously the
referral to a Disney movie as
the way which women view
love stories again equates
women as childlike or “girls”.
This being said let it be known
that there are women at North
Park who do not support the
Disney classics because they
only perpetuate the mindset
that a woman is helpless and
defenseless until she is re-deemed
by a man in a ridicu-lous
costume on a white horse
coming to return her glass slip-per
that she so haphazardly lost
or wake her with a kiss because
she naively ate a poisoned
apple. These ideas of love are
preposterous and are plainly
out of the realm of any reality
that we face as women of the
three-dimensional world.
I also would like to contest
the notion that God will provide
a “perfect” mate. God will
never be able to provide you
perfection because people are
imperfect. Men and women of
North Park, if you spend your
lifetime in search of a perfect
mate you will waste a lifetime
trying to find something that
doesn’t exist. For it is true love
that will grant you the ability
to view someone’s imperfec-tions
and love them regardless
of them, in spite of them, or
even because of them.
Furthermore, when one does
find true love I would hope that
it would not spawn jealousy.
As the apostle Paul tells us,
jealousy is a worldly emotion.
It would be very difficult to
have a true relationship of God
while wanting others to desire
something you have in a
worldly manner. In addition,
as members of the body of
Christ we should be more con-cerned
in rejoicing with the
greatness of love than being
jealous of it.
Also, while it is true that
women can be annoying, I
would say that the same holds
true for men, this is because
people can be annoying. How
one-dimensional is it to tell the
men of North Park to distance
themselves from their female
friends so as they will be wor-thy
to be called, “A Man”? This
limitation would seriously lead
me to pose the question: What
good is it to strive to become a
man when you stop being hu-man?
It is not the men of North
Park’s duty to set the tone of
this campus, it is a human duty
to strive to set a community of
love, tolerance, understanding,
dialogue, and respect. “War-riors”
don’t do this;
humans filled with
kindness and compas-sion
do this.
At the heart of all
this debate we have,
however, lost sight of
something of great im-portance.
When all is
said and done, we are
all people. We shouldn’t seg-regate
ourselves into men and
women. We should live as
people in a community that is
abiding by Christian principles.
When we look at the body of
Christ we should see people.
People who possess individual
souls, hearts, and minds. It is
essential for us as a community
to stop seeing gender, race,
creed, sexual preference,
weight, aesthetics, religious af-filiation,
and so on. Because it
will only be then when we are
finally able to truly live God’s
plan of being an egalitarian so-ciety
based on love. For love
(regardless of if it is romantic
or platonic) has no restrictions
or limitations and knows no
gender.
The notion that God will provide
you with a mate when you are
spiritually in-tune is a fallacy.
in the GLBT community has
anything of value. But, with
Jesus we are loved and valued
though we do not deserve it. If
we want to love each other, we
must recognize our own faults
and be open to correction; so I
began with an apology. We
must also not lie to ourselves
and pretend to be righteous; so
I wrote this article to reveal
truth. We must show our love
for others whom we seek to
help; I personally apologized to
Paul and Mike and we’re go-ing
to talk about the situation
with GLBT issues on campus
as a beginning.
Hate the sin. Love the sin-ner.
It’s what Jesus did for us.
Josh Anderson
Alternative sexual preference, continued from page 2
Check out this week’s “I’ve got
the conch” on page 4!
If you could be any movie character,
who would you be?
Selma, from Dancer in the Dark.
~Christine Kanowik, Laura Smith,
and Kayla Steinke
Jo March, from
Little Women.
~Ellen Moore
Michael
Corleone, from
The Godfather.
~Kjel Larsen
CUPOLA
CONVERSATION
Elle Woods, from Legally Blonde.
~Sheree Moldenhauer
Tony Montana,
from Scarface.
~Brian Thompson
4 Campus Friday, 30 January 2004
Friday, January 30 Saturday, January 31 Sunday, February 1 Monday, February 2
8 p.m. - COLLEGELIFE
8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. -Green Team Project 5:15 p.m. - Superbowl Party in Anderson 10:30 a.m.- University Chapel
Chapel
We’ve all become fa-miliar
with this
year’s campus
theme: What is community?
The ubiquitous phrase has
made its way into chapel ser-vices,
class discussions, and
monthly film forums. But what
is your answer? Now, through
an upcoming contest, there is a
way to win a cash prize for your
participation in discussion of
the campus theme.
The annual North Park Dia-logue
Writing Contest will rec-ognize
the best written works
by North Park students on the
campus theme. What will be
different this year is the nature
of accepted entries. While in
the past it has been strictly an
essay contest, this year it has
been extended to include works
such as poetry, short stories,
and other creative non-fiction.
All North Park students are eli-gible,
including undergrad,
graduate, and GOAL students.
As many as six awards will be
granted in categories that are
yet to be decided, based on the
number and type of entries re-ceived.
Jen Pope, North Park’s
Campus Theme Coordinator,
explained: “the purpose of the
contest is to draw out student
thoughts and research on the
campus theme that has been our
focus all year.”
Entries should be no more
than 1200 words, and are due
by Monday, April 5; by 4pm.
Submissions can be turned in
to Jen Pope (box 52) or emailed
to jpope@northpark.edu, and
no late entries will be accepted.
Winners will receive a $100
cash award, as well as recogni-tion
at the April 26 Honors
Convocation.
Along with the writing con-test
is another opportunity for
students to engage with the
campus theme. This time, it in-volves
next year’s theme, What
is justice? The topic will focus
most specifically on issues of
justice in the US and in Africa.
Pope said that Africa will be-come
a focus next year because
“our considerations of justice
must go beyond ourselves be-cause
God is a God of justice
for all, not just for Christians
or Americans.” Additionally,
such a focus will go along with
a year-long commemoration
the Covenant Church has
planned in memory of Paul
Carlson, a medical missionary
to Africa.
As Pope described, the Cam-pus
Theme Planning Commit-tee
wants to make sure that
“programming being planned
for next year is relevant and of
interest to students.” In order
to carry out this goal, they are
requesting program proposals
for the 2004-2005 academic
year centering around the cam-pus
theme. Students may make
a proposal in cooperation with
a faculty or staff member, and
could be eligible for a grant of
up to $6000 for their proposed
program. Pope suggested that
a grant could be used “to bring
in one or more speakers who
are knowledgeable in the par-ticular
area, to fund a week- or
month-long film series, or to
support a book discussion
group. Possible subjects for
such programs might include
war, racial reconciliation,
women’s rights, legal systems,
education, or agriculture. Of
course these are not exhaustive
lists, and Pope encouraged stu-dents,
stating: “almost anything
is up for discussion.”
More detailed information
on both of these events is avail-able
at www.northpark.edu/
campustheme/. If you have fur-ther
questions, contact Jen Pope
(jpope@northpark.edu or
x5553).
Campus theme contests
Two contests
centered on the
campus theme give
students the chance
to win money,
influence dialogue.
Emily Nelson
Campus News Editor
Are you one of those people who think there
should be more dating at North Park? Wonder-ing
how to have a good time and pick up a HOT
date? LASO has a great opportunity for you!
Our popular dating auction is about to kick off
and we don’t want you to miss out. LASO would
like to invite you and your friends to the date
auction that will take place this Thursday at
Java house. The auction will begin at 7:00 p.m.
and will probably go on until 9:00 p.m. For those
of you who think that the auction is only about
getting people to date, think again! LASO has
decided to direct the money earned towards
the support of upcoming mission trips to Latin
America. You won’t regret you came! Don’t for-get
to bring your wallet or purse for a night that
is guaranteed fun. Don’t be left behind! For
more information concerning missions trips
visit University Ministries in the basement of
Sohlberg.
Dating Auction
Returns!
On the road to keep edu-cating
and informing
our campus on what is
going on in the Holy Land,
North Park’s Middle Eastern
Association is proud to inform
you that it is continuing its mis-sion.
A lot of things happen in Is-rael
and Palestine which are not
very well portrayed in the day-to-
day U.S. media. We are here
to try and give you the other
perspective. It has been said
that MESA has been showing
the Palestinian perspective for
most of the time; we now hope
to prove this thought wrong.
MESA is on the quest to show
the truth of what is really hap-pening
in the west bank and
Gaza. MESA is not just a Pal-estinian
organization - it is a
Middle Eastern Organization
where we portray all perspec-tives
equally, to let the truth be
clear.
This is why on February 2nd
we are co-sponsoring a discus-sion
by Mrs. Wendy Pearlman.
Our partner in this venture is
Not In My Name, a Jewish or-ganization.
Wendy Pearlman is a young
Jewish woman who is pursuing
her doctorate in government at
Harvard University. She trav-eled
to the Gaza Strip and the
i’ve got the conch.
Our quest against ignorance
Anmar M. Al-Dajani
President of the Middle
Eastern Association
West Bank to teach herself
about Palestinian day-to-day
life.
She is coming to North Park
University on Monday to share
her experience with us. This
kind of opportunity does not
happen everyday; to have such
a distinguished guest speaker
teach us about what is going on
is an honor.
I would like to thank every-one
who makes these opportu-nities
possible. Professor
Donald Wagner, first and fore-most,
who makes it his only
mission to teach students. I
think this is the true Christian
Ethic that we all seek. I would
say North Park University is
really blessed to have such a
distinguished professor.
I hear a lot of people say we
know what is going on, but
those are the words of a truly
ignorant person, because we
never really know. I heard a
wise man once say “after I got
my Bachelor degree I thought
I knew everything, when I got
my Masters I thought well
maybe I don’t know a lot, but
when I got my Ph.D. I knew for
certain that I do not know any-thing.”
I think these are truly
the words of a wise man. So
come and enjoy what knowl-edge
has to offer.
Mrs. Pearlman will make
her presentation on Monday,
February 2, in the first floor
conference room of Brandel
Library.
Bentances, commonly re-ferred
to as Dr. B, spoke spe-cifically
about matters of dis-crimination
and the challenge
of this generation to deal with
the unfinished business that
history has left us. “When
people do wrong to people, in
order to justify the evil they do,
they place differences on them
and blame them for negative
conditions,” said Bentances.
He challenged students to real-ize
that while people tend to
hate bad outcomes, they don’t
always hate the behavior that
gets them there. When recon-ciling
racial issues, Bentances
called for students to be con-scious
of the privileges they
benefit from.
Society places meaning on
all its surroundings, including
gender, race, color and class.
The question that remains is
how to make sense of our dif-ferences.
“I really like how Dr.
B compared the way we put
meaning on a handkerchief to
how we place meaning on the
color of people. And more im-portantly,
how we can over-come
that and gain a deeper
understanding of each other,”
said Andrea Olson ’06.
Betances called for the
church to focus on the purpose
that God has given to his king-dom,
and for this generation to
realize that men and women of
all backgrounds must come to-gether
as one body. “You
couldn’t have chosen a more
timely theme than to focus on
the issue of race,” said
Betances, “The church has cor-rupted
this more than any other
issue.” He challenged students
Focus on Race, continuted from page 1
to think about what they need
to start, stop, or continue in or-der
to move towards equality.
“Dr. Betances gives our
generation hope for a coming
together of all people, no mat-ter
their background, and he
challenged all who heard him
to take action in racial issues
right here everyday, even
across the river at Von
Steuben,” said Zirk, “The most
important inspiration that I take
away from Dr. Betances’ life
and teaching is that I should
never settle for less than my
highest aspiration and to fight
to find ways to reach my high-est
potential.”
Check out the latest edition of HandsOn, North
Park’s online social justice magazine. The
newest issue focuses on immigration, and
features a lot of great articles by fellow North
Park students. You can find it at
www.handsonmag.org.
CAMP
Friday, 30 January 2004 5 Campus
Tuesday, February 3 Wednesday, February 4 Thursday, February 5 Friday, February 6
9:30-11 p.m. - Impact Meeting
Spend a couple of hours pouring over
Shakespeare’s sonnets, sampling
chocolates, and/or choosing which color
rose best describes your level of
commitment to your Valentine... or
simply send him/her a personalized note
in the Feb. 13th issue of the North Park
Press. (More info above...)
5:30-7:30 p.m. - Pastor’s Dinner
7:30-9:30 p.m. - Seminary Dessert
Open House
5:30-9 p.m. - AAMA Dinner
9-11 p.m. - Impact Prayer Meeting
If you are planning on attending all of
the special meals tomorrow, you may
want to starve yourself today...
piling the results. Desai distributed a
written survey last spring on campus,
and did not get much response.
Under the U-PASS system, the
University would be required to pay
$0.60 per day for every student en-rolled,
multiplied by the number of
days that the school is in session. For
an entire year, North Park would pay
approximately $348,000 for the pro-gram.
An additional $134 would be
added to every student’s tuition (in-cluding
seminary, graduate, and
GOAL students) to cover the new
expenses.
“I don’t see why we should pay for
a survey when we already know that
the program will cost the school and
the students too much money,” said
sophomore senator Julia Olson.
A study last year by North Park
found that if the school charged only
commuter students for the U-PASS,
the fee would be significantly higher
than the average student pays for pub-lic
transportation on their own.
A major obstacle in the implemen-tation
of such a system is that the CTA
requires that the school pay for ev-ery
student, regardless of whether
they use public transportation or not.
Only about 15% of North Park’s un-dergraduate
population uses the CTA
to get to school.
SA, continued from page 1
We have all come across
homeless people,
seen them on the
streets, and smelled them as
they’ve come on the trains. It
seems that just by being there
they pose an inconvenience and
can place a foul taste in our
mouth. We try to walk the other
way and we might feel bad for
them, or maybe even have feel-ings
of guilt. However, these
thoughts are often mixed with
the thought that they must have
done something to be this way,
to deserve such a life. How of-ten
do we turn away and leave
things as they are? Too often.
This is not necessarily because
we don’t want to do something,
but because of a lack of knowl-edge
of how we can truly share.
If you care, and want to be
exposed to this area which
Christ himself was passionate
about, here is your chance to
make a difference.
Homelessness and Hunger has
a variety of ministries which go
out weekly, and even daily, to
help the less fortunate in our
community receive the love
and attention which is so des-perately
needed by those who
are rejected on a daily basis and
never shown an ounce of accep-tance.
Look for upcoming ar-ticles
in the paper explaining a
little about each ministry, and
how you can get involved.
One of the activities is our
bi-weekly Friday night home-less
ministry. We meet in
Anderson lobby at 9pm to pre-pare
some food, and then go
through some brief training
before heading out to share
food, clothes, blankets, love
and truly just a humane touch
with homeless people around
Chicago who are usually under
the highways or in lower
Wacker. It is often this love
expressed through the time and
interaction as well as prayer
that makes the difference and
uplifts people’s spirits. So
come and join us on Friday
nights at 9 if you’re interested
and want to make a difference.
Our next trip out will be Feb-ruary
6th.
Chicago outside of North Park
Will Mejia
Co-sponsored by The Middle Eastern Association at
North Park University
And Not In My Name (www.nimn.org)
Wendy Pearlman
Author of Occupied Voices
Stories of everyday life from the second intifada
Monday February 2nd Noon lunch presentation
Brandel Library, First floor conference room
Wendy Pearlman is a young Jewish women traveled to
the west bank and the Gaza strip in the quest to talk
with ordinary Palestinians. Her Essays and amazing
photography gives us something that is we rarely see,
an intimacy with Palestinians which is both human and
humane. This presentation argues that peace is
possible in a deeply wounded land.
Looking for a unique way to propose or spill the truth about
your intense feelings to that special someone? Or maybe just
to wish your friends a happy Valentine’s Day?
Now’s your chance!
On February 13th, one page of the North Park Press will be
dedicated to personal messages from NPU students, staff,
and faculty. Each will cost $.50. Co-sponsored by the
Commuter Student Association.
Check out the NPU Daily Announcements and next week’s
paper for more details!
How long have you worked at camp?
I suppose I am camp veteran, I have worked the 2 summers at Portage Lake
(maintenance) and this past summer I worked at Covenant Heights as a coun-selor.
What is your favorite thing, as part of the staff?
My favorite thing about being a member of summer staff is the close rela-tionship
that are formed because of the shared goals and struggles. Without
being overly dramatic, the staff becomes a tight-knit family because you eat
together, sleep together, work together, share your struggles and joys with each
other. It is amazing to watch God work in and through you.
What is the hardest thing about spending a summer at camp? What was
the most challenging?
Whether you are staying up late with a sick camper or getting up early to
catch 10 minutes of peace and quiet, sleep is always in short supply. Working
at camps challenges me because it forced me to put my faith into action, both
by actively sharing my faith and story with the cabin, and making sure that I
am leading by example, and living a life that is in accordance with the Bible.
The physical, emotional, and spiritual demands are high, but the eternal im-pact
made is well worth the cost.
Why should students work at a camp for the summer?
Students should consider working at a camp because it is an amazing place
to put your faith into action in a new and different context. I am fortunate to
have the opportunity to work at a camp where I am in the midst of God’s
beautiful creation, surrounded by amazing staff, and working to build the King-dom
of God.
Many a North Parker works at camp during the summer months.
Here Andy Meyer gets real about the difficulties and rewards that
such a job holds for students. Check out the camps that will be on
campus this week for your chance to get in on the summer job action.
6 Pulse Friday, 30 January 2004
Classy
Carissa Esmon
Dear Classy Kassi,
I am so glad that there is now an expert on campus that can
help me with my fashion questions. I am a female with short
hair and I have noticed that lately whenever I get my hair cut
I want to cut it a little shorter every time. So my question is:
How short is too short when it comes to hair and women?
Thank you Kassi.
Sincerely,
Short but sweet
How short is
too short?
Dear Short but Sweet,
Thank you for your question. In my opinion, there is only
one important factor when it comes to a haircut: the amount
of time you are willing to spend on it. There is no real
answer to “how short is too short”; it’s all about the way you
style it. If you are willing to take the time to fix your hair in a
cute, spiky style then by all means, keep cutting. However, if
styling isn’t your area of expertise, then I would suggest
letting it grow to a length that is easier for you to handle.
Hope that helps!
Classy Kassi
Have questions or pictures for Kassi? Email them to
jschupbach@northpark.edu.
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Kassi
Braving the cold, Chicago style
Sliding across campus
today I realized a few
things: I do not get off
campus as often as I should,
it’s ridiculously cold out, and
there is nothing graceful about
me trying to keep my footing
as I meander around campus.
The latter is something I have
little control over, unless of
course I invest in snowshoes.
The other two insights,
however, can be put to good
use. There are plenty of
activities to do in Chicago this
time of year. They just require
a little creativity and
resourcefulness. Lucky for all
of you, it’s my job to find those
things out. And as for the cold,
I can’t change it but I can help
you get through the winter
months. By the way, for those
of you not used to Chicago
weather, winter ends around
the end of March.
A Taste of Heaven
Envision a Sunday
afternoon: it’s snowing,
everyone is rushing around
outside, and there you are
curled up in a café, sipping a
latte, and braving through your
stacks of homework. A Taste
of Heaven is the perfect place
for your studying needs. The
coffee and homemade treats
are great. Their staff is very
friendly and welcomes you to
sit around for hours. Located
at 1701 W. Foster Ave., phone
# 773-989-0151. Open 7 a.m.-
10 p.m. Sunday through
Thursday; 7 a.m.-11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday.
Millennium Park Ice
Skating
So there are at least a few
of you who are willing to
spend your winter outdoors.
Mostly it’s you crazy
Minnesotans. Regardless of
your toughness or lack of
balance, ice skating is a winter
tradition we should all
embrace. The McCormick
Tribune Ice Rink at
Millennium Park is a great
place to act like a little kid.
Located at 55 N. Michigan
Ave. It’s open 10a.m.-10p.m.
Sunday through Wednesday;
10a.m.-8:30p.m. Thursday
through Saturdays. Skate
rentals are $5. For more
information call 312-742-
5 2 2 2 .
Chicago Blackhawks
So maybe ice skating isn’t
your thing. However, that is
no excuse not to watch other
people do it. Especially the
professionals. This one is
definitely a good time. Plus,
students get in for $8 when
they bring their student ID
with them within three hours
of a game. The next home
game is Febuary 11th at 7:30
against Nashville.
For more
information call
312-943-7000.
Concerts
If you live in
Chicago and do
not go see a
concert I’m going
to become very
concerned. This
town has some
awesome venues
and attracts
phenomenol acts.
And, during the
winter there’s no
better way to stay
L
E
T
‘S
BE
H
O
N
E
S
T
warm then to pack yourself
into crowded theatre. There
are a lot of great acts coming
our way in the next couple of
months. Try out a band you’ve
never heard of. Who knows,
you may become their biggest
fan. Check the ConcertLine
for show information. Some
venues worth checking out are
the Metro at 3730 N. Clark St.;
the House of Blues at 329 N.
Dearborn St.; or the Vic
Theatre at 3145 N. Sheffield
A v e
So let us review. Chicago
winters are wicked cold, but
let’s accept it and move on. So
instead of sitting around on
our futons and cheap Ikea
stools for the next couple of
months we need to get out
there and see what this city has
to offer. And for those of you
who seem to be so desperately
seeking a mate, just try falling
in front of that special
someone while ice skating. It’s
a perfect opportunity for them
to give you a skating
lesson...or laugh hysterically
at your snow covered butt.
Pulse 7 Friday, 30 January 2004
Let’s all go to the movies…
2/2 Monday
1/30 Friday
Pulse Calendar
2/1 Sunday
Make sure to check all dates and times before you attend the show because they are subject to change.
1/31 Saturday
2/5 Thursday
ConcertLine
· 2 1/3 c. flour · 1 c. water
· 1.2 c. vegan margarine · 2/3 c. cocoa powder
· 2 c. sugar · 1/2 tsp. salt
· 1 tsp. vanilla · 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1. Mix 1/3 c. flour in saucepan with the water. Stir constantly, on medium heat until the mixture is
significantly thicker and boiling (or on the verge of boiling). Cool completely.
2. Melt margarine in microwave & then stir in cocoa powder.
3. Beat sugar, salt, & vanilla into the flour-water mixture. Add cocoa mixture & stir well.
4. Stir together 2 c. flour & baking powder, and then add the previous mixture.
5. Bake in 9"x13" pan @ 350 for 20-25 min.
6. Eat, because they are amazing!
CCuorlinnearry My good friend Susan Golland and I were
hanging around the other night and, since
Rebecca Perry decided to take a bath over
watching a movie with us, we decided to bake vegan
brownies. We entered the baking experience nervous
and cautious, but once I put on some baking music
and Susan starting making the glue-like water and
flour mixture, everything seemed all right. In the
end, these brownies were amazing. They were the
best vegan brownies we had ever had, and pretty
extraordinary for regular brownies as well. Here’s
the recipe which we obtained at http://www.ivu.org/
recipes/northam/the-best.html: :
BROWNIES: vegan style
with joe Strictly Sail Chicago
Navy Pier will be hosting over 250 exhibitors displaying the
newest sailboats and sail-related products, plus seminars,
sailing simulators, authors and more. This event will be
going on all weekend. Open 11a.m.-8p.m. Thursday and
Friday; 10a.m.-8p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission $5-
$12. For more information call 312-595-5700.
BREW AND VIEW
“School of Rock” 8pm (Fri, Sat, Mon - Thurs); 108min
“Scary Movie 3” 10pm (Fri, Sat, Mon - Thurs); 84 min
“School of Rock” Midnight (Fri, Sat & Thurs); 108min
Big Game Bash & The Latest Survivor
21+ Event
Doors open at 3PM -kick off is at 5:25
Free Subway sandwiches (while supplies last)!
Admission is free - and stay for the showing of the “All-Star
Survivor”
Sponsors: 93 XRT FM, MillerLite, Dean’s and Subway.
2/3 Tuesday
2/4 Wednesday
SEMINARY DESSERT OPEN HOUSE
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Seminary Open House in Nyvall Lounge and N25.
RED HYMNAL SOCIETY
The Red Hymnal Society hymn sing this week has been
moved to Isaacson chapel in the seminary building (which is
between Caroline and the library, by the bridge) Enter
through the main doors, take a left, then walk straight until
you enter the chapel). 9-10 pm. You are encouraged to bring
a mug and a thermos of decaf coffee or baked goods for
coffee hour following the worship (if you have the time and
resources).
IMPACT MEETING
9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Impact Prayer team will meet in Magnuson 5. For more
information, contact Tyler Erickson at (773) 244-5568.
Theater That Works: A Chicago Story
The Harold Washington Library Center will be showcasing for
the weekend a collection of photographs, posters, stage props,
playbills and drawings that chronicle the history of Chicago
theater. Located at 400 S. State St. Open 9a.m.-5p.m.
Admission is free. Call 312-747-4875 for more information.
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920s-
1950s
Super Bowl not your idea of fun? Then check out this new
exhibit at Northwestern’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of
Art. Includes more than 80 paintings by Ivan Albright, Elaine
de Kooning, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and more.
Located at 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Open Sunday
12p.m.-5p.m. It’s free! Call 847-491-4000 for more
information.
Chicago Rebels West Coast Swing Club
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Try your hand
at swing dancing at Club 720. This monthly party features a
45-minute West Coast swing dance lesson with Nancy and
Alex followed by an open dance. 7:15 p.m. - 11 p.m.; $5
cover; $5 dance lesson. Located at 720 N. Wells St. For more
information call 312-397-0600.
Dates Band Venue Price Time
1/30 Alan Jackson and Allstate Arena $40-60 7:30pm
Martina Mcbride
2/12 Josh Groban Rosemont $40-85 8pm
2/13 Alicia Keys and Musiq United Center $35-75 7:30pm
2/15 Dweezil Zappa and House of Blues $15 8pm
Lisa Loeb
2/20 From Autumn to Ashes Metro $10-12 6pm
2/20 Rufus Wainwright Riviera $22.50 7:30pm
2/26 Jars of Clay The Vic $20 7:30pm
2/26 O.A.R. w/ Robert Aragon $25 6pm
Randolph...
2/27 Pennywise House of Blues $14 6:15pm
2/28 Further Seems Forever Metro $10-13 6pm
3/4 Neil Young and Crazy Rosemont $43-85 8pm
Horse
3/5 Neil Young and Crazy Rosemont $43-85 8pm
Horse
3/5 Edwin McCain Band House of Blues $20 9pm
3/7 Get Up Kids Metro $16 6:30pm
3/11 Keb’ Mo’ House of Blues $25 9pm
3/14 Liz Phair House of Blues $25 6:30pm
Last week’s top 5
1) The Butterfly Effect
2) Along Came Polly
3) Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
4) Big Fish
5) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King Opening this week
The Big Bounce
The Perfect Score
You Got Served
Osama
8 Athletics Friday, 23 January 2004
Editor’s Ramblings of
the Week
Why? Because he
can.
Scott Hanson
Sports Editor
Marci LaRouech
This Week in NPU Sports
Will Mejia ’04, Lucy Abel
‘05, and Grace Conrad ’05, led
the Vikings indoor track team
at the Chicago Invitational Sat-urday.
Mejia scored over half of the
Vikings’ points with a strong
performance in both the weight
throw and shot put. Mejia
placed first with a strong
weight throw of 15.37m and
placed sixth in the shot put,
throwing 13.68m. “All the
great results this Saturday and
the ones to come have been
caused by our dedication
throughout the year during the
off season,” said Mejia of
Saturday’s performance.
Abel placed first in both the
long jump and triple jump,
bounding 5.38m and 11.24m
respectively. Her triple jump
provisionally qualified Able
for the National Indoor Track
Meet, to be held in March.
Conrad continued to excel
in the distance category with a
second place 5000m finish.
Her PR time of 18:19.90 gave
her the school record.
“This was a great start for a
few of us to look not only at the
conference, but also the national
level,” said Mejia. “This meet
gave Lucy, Grace and me the
goal to get to nationals.”
Other strong finishes for the
Vikings came from the
women’s distance medley,
which placed fourth, Essence
Ashford ’07, taking third in the
high jump, and Ahkeem
Waterford ’06, who high
jumped to 6.10m (fifth place).
This weekend, the Vikings
will travel to the Carthage Col-lege
Invitational with the goal
of bringing back additional na-tional
qualifying performances.
-It is Super Bowl week-end,
the most celebrated day
of the year in the U.S. It
seems like the NFL usually
makes sure that the Super
Bowl is hosted by a city where players, their families, and
football fans would want to flock to in the middle of win-ter.
Places like Miami, New Orleans, San Diego and Tampa
Bay come to mind. But Houston? The only things in Hous-ton
I can think of are Yao Ming, the monstrosity that is
Minute Maid Ballpark, and the ongoing trials of former
Enron Executives.
-Speaking of the Super Bowl, one of the real questions
is who is going to win the Kurt Warner’s wife award, given
to those whose airtime is way out of proportion to their
actual contribution to the game. Vegas odds should be about
3-1 that it’s going to be Jake Delhomme’s family.
-Is it any coincidence that the same time the treadmills
are broken the Edy’s Machine is turned off in ARA?
- Utah Head Basketball Coach Rick Majerus announced
this week that he is resigning at the end of the season due to
health reasons. Look at the guy! The only surprise is that it
didn’t happen much sooner.
A consistent defense by the Wheaton
women’s basketball team held the Vikings to a
45-62 loss on Wednesday night. The shots sim-ply
would not go in for the Vikings (10-8, 2-5),
who were held to only 30 percent from the floor.
North Park’s Megan Slattery (’06) and
Shandrel Young (’06), were the focus of the
Thunder, and were held to only eight points each.
“When teams overplay any player, then some-one
else is going to be open,” said Coach Jack
Surridge. “We simply have to take advantage of
Marci LaRouech
Vikings Eye Nationals
After Chicago Invitational
After strong show-ings
at the Saturday
meet, three Vikings
are looking towards
Nationals
Women’s Basketball
falls to Wheaton
The Lady Vikes lose to
Wheaton in the last five min-utes
of a close game.
those openings.”
The game was kept close with the help of a
string of three-point shots by Tiffany Campbell
(’06) and Laura Mount (’06). Not until the last
five minutes did Wheaton start to extend the lead.
Campbell was the Vikings’ high scorer. She
finished the night with 12 points. “They shut
down our inside game and we struggled finding
open shots” said Campbell of the loss.
Redina Hall (’05) and Angie Watt (’07) helped
the Vikings with four and six points respectively.
Wheaton was lead by post Erin Wingerter
(’05) with 26 points.
“Our team’s patience in the half court is in-consistent
because of our youth, and we have to
improve on that,” added Surridge.
The women’s basketball team will travel to
Wheaton (14-4, 6-1) on Tuesday to take on the
Thunder in another CCIW matchup.
1/31/2004 Men’s Basketball vs. Illinois
Wesleyan at Bloomington, IL 7:30PM
1/31/2004 Indoor Track and Field at
Carthage College Invite Kenosha, WI 11:00
AM
2/3/2004 Women’s Basketball at Wheaton
Wheaton, IL 7:30 PM
2/4/2004 Men’s Basketball vs. Carthage at
North Park 7:30 PM
A full house was on hand
Wednesday night as the Men’s
basketball team fell to CCIW
rival Wheaton 77-69. The
Thunder were lead by pre-sea-son
All-American Joel
Kolmodin. The conference
leader in rebounding grabbed
six boards and scored 23 points
as North Park could not find an
answer to Wheaton’s frontline.
The Thunder relentlessly
pounded the ball inside the
paint, getting good shots on
seemingly every possession.
Three of Wheaton’s big men,
Will Landry, Martin Trimiew,
and Kolmodin finished with 56
of the teams 77 total points.
In the first half the Vikings
fought hard to keep up with the
Wheaton attack. Sophomore
forward Brett Mathisen once
again was the spark for the
Vikes, with 8 points and 4
boards in the first half. Lamar
Townsend scored 6 of his 12
points in the first half and added
3 more rebounds. The Vikings’
efforts paid off and they went
into the half down by only three
points.
The second half of the con-test
looked like it might turn in
to a Wheaton blowout. For 15
minutes Wheaton kept a com-
Vikings Stumble Against Rival Wheaton
Late game come-back
by North Park cannot
topple Nations #12
Team
fortable lead. But the tenacity
of senior guard Cal Ecker and
some key minutes by some
freshmen put Park back in to
the game. Ecker scored 12 of
his 18 points in the last 10 min-utes
of the game. Freshman
Mike Haehn scored 9 points in
his 14 minutes of playing time,
and Cory Wilks continued his
superb outside shooting with 8
points including a late three
pointer that pulled the Vikings
to within 5 points of Wheaton
with under a minute left. The
Thunder were able to weather
North Park’s late run, and the
game ended with a Viking de-feat.
The Men’s Basketball
Teams record now stands at 6-
11(1-5). The Vikes travel down
to Bloomington-Normal this
Saturday to face the Titans of
IWU at 7:30.
(left) Senior Javier Sanchez looks for an open teammate during
the Vikings’ 77 - 69 loss to Wheaton Wednesday night.